cloud-fan commented on code in PR #53194:
URL: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/53194#discussion_r2556528333


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docs/sql-ref-scripting.md:
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+---
+layout: global
+title: SQL Scripting
+displayTitle: SQL Scripting
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+---
+
+You can employ powerful procedural logic using SQL/PSM standard-based 
scripting syntax.
+Any SQL script consists of and starts with a [compound 
statement](control-flow/compound-stmt.html) block (`BEGIN ... END`).
+A compound statement starts with a section to declare local variables, 
user-defined conditions, and condition handlers, which are used to catch 
exceptions.
+This is followed by the compound statement body, which consists of:
+
+- Flow control statements include loops over predicate expressions, 
[FOR](control-flow/for-stmt.html) loops over query results, conditional logic 
such as [IF](control-flow/if-stmt.html) and 
[CASE](control-flow/case-stmt.html), and means to break out loops such as 
[LEAVE](control-flow/leave-stmt.html) and 
[ITERATE](control-flow/iterate-stmt.html).
+- DDL statements such as `ALTER`, `CREATE`, `DROP`.
+- DML statements [INSERT](sql-ref-syntax-dml-insert-into.html).
+- [Queries](sql-ref-syntax-qry-select.html) that return result sets to the 
invoker of the script.
+- [SET](sql-ref-syntax-aux-set-var.html) statements to set local variables as 
well as session variables.
+- The [EXECUTE IMMEDIATE](sql-ref-syntax-aux-exec-imm.html) statement.
+- Nested compound statements, which provide nested scopes for variables, 
conditions, and condition handlers.
+
+## Enablement
+
+To enable SQL Scripting, set the `spark.sql.scripting.enabled` flag to `true`.

Review Comment:
   There are a lot of progress on SQL scripting in 4.1, and scripting GA can be 
a nice achievement to put in the 4.1 release notes. I think the feature is 
production ready now with the document committed (This feature is available in 
Databricks products for more than 6 months), but I'll leave the decision to the 
release manager @dongjoon-hyun 



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